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definition
A device measuring the time of day by the position of a shadow cast by a pole or plate (gnomon) upon an engraved series of marks.
Examples of sundial in a Sentence
He constructed a sundial on a buttress of the Chapel.
The wall on which a vertical sundial is mounted does not have to face due south.
Examine the sundial in the forecourt, believed to be of 8th century monastic origin.
Newton carved a sundial on the wall of Colsterworth Church.
I have read your " How to set up a horizontal sundial " page with interest.
Within the garden is the impressive Akeler Sundial, created by the acclaimed sculptor Edwin Russell FRBS.
My school is building a sundial in the front of our school.
There was a brass weather vane and a painted sundial on the outside of the Hall but it is not known where these were.
There are a number of these in museums in North America, see, for example, the Ottawa sundial trail.
Sundial societies exist in Britain and many other countries, and their membership is expanding.
The sundial consists of the 4 brass dials mounted to the granite cube placed on the granite pedestal.
The Turnbull or Pelican sundial in the front quadrangle of Corpus Christi College in Oxford is probably one of the finest pillar dials.
On the south face of the tower is a large painted sundial.
For a more accurate sundial, you should go to one of the sundial makers listed on our sundial makers and designers page Q1.
A millenium time capsule was buried beneath the sundial.
A lightweight laser Trigon for layout of sundial lines -John Davis 146.
There is a " human gnomon " analemmatic sundial in the middle of the maze in the pleasure gardens.
The sundial, missing its gnomon, has three gradations which therefore divide the day up into four parts.
There is one further hustings for Weavers Ward candidates this Thursday 27th at 6.30pm at the Sundial Center on Shipton Street.
Near the museum entrance a 1656 slate sundial is fixed under a window.
A stone sundial is set in the wall above one of the doors.
Next to the Bowling Green is a large garden sundial.
A lightweight laser trigon for layout of sundial lines -John Davis 146.
King Roger's sundial in the palace is commemorated in all three, and it is to be noticed that the three inscriptions do not translate one another.
He taught, if he did not discover, the obliquity of the ecliptic, is said to have introduced into Greece the gnomon (for determining the solstices) and the sundial, and to have invented some kind of geographical map. But his reputation is due mainly to his work on nature, few words of which remain.
Man had developed in his knowledge that early engineering came about through the means of noticing the sun bouncing off of cliffs and discovering that that could be simulated through the sundial.
While there are many more other time developments between the sundial and the modern day watch, for the sake of convenience we are skipping over the less relevant ones.
The sundial is the first clock that we have solid evidence of.